Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Friday, October 06, 2006

The F-word from DePaul "University"

1.DePaul University's Moment of Truthhttp://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5917(go to web site for links)October 5th, 2006

The new academic school year is well underway. But there is one school inwhich this year will determine once and for all whether it will henceforthbe considered to be a *bona fide* "university", or merely a make-pretendparody of one.

That institution is DePaul University.

This year will witness the most important decision in DePaul's entirehistory, ever since it was first foundedby<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePaul_University>the Catholic"Vincentians". Over the next few months, DePaul will bedeciding whether or not to grant Norman Finkelstein tenure on the basis ofhis "record". The same university that fired Prof. ThomasKlocek<http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4428&search=Finkelstein>fordaringto defend Israel<http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17728>ina campus conversation outside the classroom is now seriouslyconsideringgranting tenure to Finkelstein on the basis of his hate-filledpseudo-scholarly screeds. Finkelstein serves as assistant professor ofpolitical science at DePaul, but scholarship is the last thing that occupieshis time.

Before coming to DePaul he had been fired from several adjunct jobs atacademic institutions in the New York area for his lack of serious academiccredentials and scholarship. Virtually Finkelstein's *entire* publicationrecord consists of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel books and non-professionalarticles. He has no publicationswhatsoever<http://condor.depaul.edu/~psc/vitae/FinkelsteinCV.htm>inany refereed academic journals, although he has hundreds inanti-Semitic,Holocaust Denial, and neo-nazi web magazines. The closest Finkelstein evergot to journal publication was with a couple of propaganda pieces in *NewPolitics <http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/whoweare.htm>*, a "socialist"non-academic magazine of far-leftist agitprop, sponsored by � among others �Noam Chomsky. This "journal" openly states that it "stands in opposition toall forms of imperialism, and is uncompromising in its defense of feminismand affirmative action." Finkelstein also writes in assorted pro-terrorPalestinian "journals".

Finkelstein's "books" have been dismissed as scholarly frauds andhate-filled propaganda by just about every serious historian or otherscholar who has reviewed them. In the *New York Times, *Prof. Omer Bartov**(Brown University historian)* *described Finkelstein's book on theHolocaust as a "novel variation of the *Protocols of the Elders of Zion*,"the fraudulent essay concocted in the late nineteenth century by the Czaristsecret police. He also described Finkelstein as "juvenile," "arrogant," and"stupid" (Aug. 6, 2000). Professor Marc Saperstein described Finkelstein's*Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse ofhistory<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520245989/counterpunchmaga>* as a "prolonged diatribe," replete with "outrageous *ad hominem* attacks"and written in the "rhetorical style of the arrogant academic pit bull."

The eminent historian Daniel JonahGoldhagen<http://www.bu.edu/mzank/Michael_Zank/gold.html>has dismissedFinkelstein<http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/28/specials/goldhagen-profile.html>asan anti-Semitic crackpot, as a pseudo-scholar, and as an apologist forthe Hamas terrorists. The historian Israel Guttman dismissedFinkelstein <http://stand4facts.org/speakers/AIS-20050307-27/flyers/flyer_3.pdf>asan anti-Semitic buffoon.Professor Hans Momsen from Germany described itas<http://stand4facts.org/speakers/AIS-20050307-27/flyers/flyer_3.pdf>"amost trivial book, one that appeals to easily aroused anti-Semiticprejudices." University of Chicago Professor and author Peter NovickdismissesFinkelstein's writing<http://stand4facts.org/speakers/AIS-20050307-27/flyers/flyer_3.pdf>as"trash".Novick has written,

"Such an examination reveals that many of those assertions are pureinvention� No facts alleged by Finkelstein should be assumed to be reallyfacts, no quotation in his book should be assumed to be accurate." [1]

He adds,

"I had not thought that (apart from the disreputable fringe) there wereGermans who would take seriously this twenty-first century updating of the'Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' I was mistaken." (Offene Fenster undTueren,*'Sueddeutsche Zeitung*, February 7, 2001)

The Anti-Defamation League has repeatedlycharacterized<http://studentorgs.georgetown.edu/israel/ADL-letter.pdf>Finkelsteinas an open Holocaust Denier.So has the Simon WiesenthalCenter<http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/persecution/finkelstein.htm>. The French group "*Avocats Sans Frontieres*" (Lawyers withoutBorders) fileda suit in a Frenchcourt<http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/persecution/finkelstein.htm>againstFinkelstein and his publisher two years back for libel and HolocaustDenial. Finkelstein readily adopts the language of neo-nazis; his web site afew days ago described a meeting of pro-Israel Jews in Europe as an assemblyof the "Elders ofZion"<http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=539>. His personal web site recently carried a banner heading asserting that theJews themselves fabricated photos of the murdered atAuschwitz<http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=539>..

"The field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense, if not sheerfraud,"

writes Finkelstein<http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/persecution/finkelstein.htm>*. * Among his most famous pronouncementsis<http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/history/holoviewpoint.htm>*, *

*"*If everyone who claims to be a survivor actually is one," my mother usedto exclaim, "who did Hitler kill?" (Norman Finkelstein, The HolocaustIndustry, Verso, London 2000).

He describes thereparations<http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/letters/2003oct_nbr01.htm>paidby Germany to the families of victims of the Holocaust as "*"*the greatest robbery in the history of mankind*."* He dismisses allresearch into the Holocaust at universities: "Indeed, the field of Holocauststudies is replete with nonsense, if not sheerfraud."<http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/letters/2003oct_nbr01.htm>Even Benny Morris, himself an radical "New Historian" from whose booksFinkelstein frequently quotes, has dismissedFinkelstein<http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&x_nameinnews=169&x_article=985>asa fraud and quack.

Gabriel Schonfeld, the editor of the neo-conservative *Commentary *Magazine,has written (*Commentary*, January 2001) that Finkelstein's writings are

"crackpot ideas, some of them mirrored almost verbatim in the propaganda putout by neo-Nazis around the world."

Finkelstein is beloved by ultra-extremists of both the Right and the Left. Heis a regular columnist on the pro-terror Israel-bashing web magazine *Counterpunch* <http://www.counterpunch.org/alam12042003.html>, published byneo-Stalinist Alexander Cockburn.

Finkelstein has long led a personal campaign of defamation and smear againstNobel Prize winning writer and philosopher ElieWiesel<http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/holoindustry/finkelstein1.htm>. A concentration camp survival, Wiesel has been smeared by Finkelstein as"The Resident Clown of the Holocaust Circus." Finkelstein charges thatWiesel is responsible for creating a "meaningless version of the NaziHolocaust" and for only exposing "genocides that serve the interests of theUS and Israel" (*Salon.com*, Aug. 30, 2000).

In contrast, Finkelstein has described theconvicted<http://stand4facts.org/speakers/AIS-20050307-27/flyers/flyer_4.pdf>HolocaustDenier David Irving, at the moment rotting in an Austrian prison,as "a good historian", one who has "made an indispensable contribution toour knowledge of World War II." Irving claims there were no gas chambersat all, no Holocaust of Jews in WWII, and that Hitler was in fact a friendof the Jews.

Finkelstein has dismissed the *Simon Wiesenthal Centre* (which documents theHolocaust and pursues Nazi war criminals) as'Dachau-meets-Disneyland'<http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/docs/dershowitzpamphletfinkelstein.doc>. Finkelstein has also led a long vendetta against Harvard professor of lawAlan Dershowitz. But unlike Finkelstein, Dershowitz is a serious scholarwith real academic publications. Finkelstein has called Dershowitz a nazi,has campared Dershowitz<http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/docs/dershowitzpamphletfinkelstein.doc>toAdolf Eichmann,and has even called for the targeted assassination ofDershowitz<http://counterpunch.org/finkelstein08122006.html>. He has run as "illustration" for his articles a cartoon by a Brazilianneo-nazi cartoonist ("Latuff") showing Dershowitzmasturbating<http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23995>.

Finkelstein has a long history of justifying and celebratingterrorism<http://stand4facts.org/speakers/AIS-20050307-27/flyers/flyer_1.pdf>directedagainst the US and against Israel.He has justified bin Laden and al-Qaeda attacks on the US. He repeatedlycalled for "solidarity with theHezb'Allah<http://stand4facts.org/speakers/AIS-20050307-27/flyers/flyer_4.pdf>"as it fired rockets loaded up with ball bearings at Israeli children. Hehas stated <http://www.paulbogdanor.com/jewishstate.html>,

"I say this without fear: for those who believe in freedom and dignity, weare all Hezb'Allah now."

Neo-nazi organizations all over the world celebrateFinkelstein<http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/persecution/holoracket.htm>asthe "Jewish David Irving", as the person who proves as accurate theirclaims that there was no Holocaust, and that people like David Irving aresimply telling the historic truth. Ernst Zundel<http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23995> (deported fromCanada for his open neo-nazi activities) and his wife repeatedly sing thepraises <http://stand4facts.org/speakers/AIS-20050307-27/flyers/flyer_2.pdf>ofFinkelstein.So do almost all the pro-terror web sites of Islamofascists in the world.Finkelstein has appeared on the official Hezb'Allah television networkal-Manar, because, hesaid<http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&x_nameinnews=169&x_article=985>,"If I'm willing to appear on CNN � the main propaganda organ for America'sterrorist wars�why shouldn't I appear on al-Manar?"

Finkelstein today is the symbol of DePaul's dishonorable decline, someonewho has even endorsed deaththreats<http://blogs.chronwatch.com/archives/2006/04/depaul_universi.asp>againstpro-Western Moslem dissidents.Irshad Manji runs Muslim Refusenik <http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/> a website for dissident Muslims who reject Islamofascism and terrorism. She hasbeen using her site to collect signatures to a petition that<http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/letters.html#manifesto>denounces Islamistviolence and Islamofascism. In her site, she explains that she and herfriends have received a serious death threat from a British-based Islamistwebsite. Finkelstein cheered those threats and wrote the Muslim Refusenikweb site <http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/>asking, "Is there a petition *supporting* the death threats?"

In a few months we will know whether DePaul is to adopt real academicstandards and strive to morph into a real university. The litmus test ishow it handles Finkelstein.

Anyone wishing to express an opinion to DePaul's heads about that can find alist of DePaul officers with their email addresseshere<http://directory.depaul.edu/executive_officers/index.asp>.

3. http://www.academicsforjustice.org/pMachine/more.php?id=1774_0_1_0_MIsrael backed by army of cyber-soldiersby Yonit Farago The Times Online (UK) July 28, 2006

WHILE Israel fights Hezbollah with tanks and aircraft, its supporters arecampaigning on the internet.

Israel.s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters tocounter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arabpropaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to trackwebsites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups withhundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.

In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of JewishStudents (WUJS) have downloaded special .megaphone. software that alertsthem to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to postcontrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a hostof different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed upcan influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.

Jonny Cline, of the international student group, said that Jewish studentsand youth groups with their understanding of the web environment wereideally placed to present another side to the debate.

.We.re saying to these people that if Israel is being bashed, don.t ignoreit, change it,. Mr Cline said. .A poll like CNN.s takes just a few secondsto vote in, but if thousands take part the outcome will be changed. What.svital is that the international face of the conflict is balanced..

Doron Barkat, 29, in Jerusalem, spends long nights trawling the web to tryto swing the debate Israel.s way. .When I see internet polls for oragainst Israel I send out a mailing list to vote for Israel,. he said. .Itcan be that after 15 minutes there will be 400 votes for Israel.

.It.s very satisfying. There are also forums where Lebanese and Israelistalk..

Israel.s Foreign Ministry must avoid direct involvement with the campaignbut is in contact with international Jewish and evangelical Christiangroups, distributing internet information packs.

Amir Gissin, the Israeli Foreign Ministry.s public relations director,said: .The internet.s become a leading tool for news, shaping the worldview of millions. Our problem is the foreign media shows Lebanesesuffering, but not Israeli. We.re bypassing that filter by distributingpictures showing how northern Israelis suffer from Katyusha rocketattacks..

4. More on Foley:http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2006/10/top-10-things-democrats-would-be.htmland http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009033

5. Sanitizing Fatah:http://israelnn.com/article.php3?id=6592

6. The Disgrace of Middle East Studies:http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24781